Layer system of a silicon-based support and a heterostructure applied directly onto the support

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a layer system composed of a silicon-based carrier having a single-crystal surface and of a heterostructure applied directly to the single-crystal surface of the carrier. The layer system according to the invention is characterized in that the carrier comprises a silicon substrate doped with one or more dopants, wherein the doped portion extends across at least 30% of the thickness of the doped silicon substrate and a concentration of the dopants in the doped portion of the silicon substrate is predetermined such that a corrected limiting concentration GK meets the condition of formula (1): 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
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     wherein i represents the respective dopant in the silicon substrate, N dot  represents the dopant concentration in cm −3  and E A  represents an energy barrier of the dopant in eV, which energy barrier inhibits dislocation glide.

The invention relates to a layer system composed of a silicon-basedcarrier and a heterostructure applied directly to the carrier.

PRIOR ART AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Impurities in silicon substrates are mostly added intentionally in theform of dopants in order to adjust electrical conductivity. Otherwise,however, such impurities are usually undesirable and are usuallyremoved, by means of costly methods, from the raw material or during thecrystal growing process. Undesirable impurities may have negativeeffects on components since some of them heavily diffuse in silicon andmay negatively influence the electrical properties. Depending on therespective manufacturing method, silicon contains impurities ofdifferent concentrations, e.g., usually oxygen in silicon producedaccording to the Czochralski process (CZ); when zone melting (float zone(FZ) is used, impurities of considerable concentrations are usuallypresent in the end pieces of the crystal only. For example, oxygen in CZsubstrates causes metallic impurities to be gettered thereto, which isundesirable in a zone near the future components, which is why oneendeavors to remove said impurities from at least one near-surface zoneby means of temperature treatment steps.

Some impurities, such as oxygen and nitrogen, are known to significantlyblock dislocation glide and thereby slightly harden the silicon, whichdoes not considerably influence elasticity within normal load limits.

The growth of heterolayers (heterostructures) on silicon substrates isrelevant to a large number of applications in the fields ofmicroelectronics, sensor technology and optoelectronic components,whether in connection with silicon or while using silicon as a cheap andlarge-surface substrate for layer production, which is removed from thelayer later on.

Problems that will occur during the epitaxial growth of the heterolayerscan be particularly explained using the example of the growth ofgroup-III nitrides (such as AlN, GaN, InN and the mixed systems thereof)on silicon. The growth of such group-III-nitride layers mostly takesplace at temperatures above 900° C. (except for InN-containing layers),wherein a problem occurring during the growth of these materials onsilicon consists in a high tensile strain occurring during cooling-down.Said high tensile strain results from the low thermal expansioncoefficient of silicon and the high (in relation to the low thermalexpansion coefficient of silicon) expansion coefficient of the group-IIInitrides and results in cracks in the epitaxially grown layers even withlayer thicknesses less than 1 μm.

One can counteract said problem by applying compressive prestress to thegrowing layer during the growth process. If one epitaxially grows athick layer or at very high temperatures (which is advisable for Al-richlayers in the AlGaN system), a very high compressive strain inherentlydevelops or, if no layers causing special compression are present,tensile strain develops in the layer on account of heteroepitaxialgrowth. This results in a plastic deformation of the substrate, whereina high-purity FZ substrate of higher crystal quality deforms earlierthan CZ substrates. FIG. 1 schematically shows such a substrate 100 on aheated support 104 (Part a of FIG. 1). Said substrate 100 bends due tostrain so that a substrate 101 results (Part b of FIG. 1). If forcesexceed a threshold value, plastic deformation occurs, which mostlystarts at the hotter supported edge. Said plastic deformation is shownin Part c of FIG. 1 (see hatched portion in substrate 102). This portionusually extends across the whole substrate 103 (see schematicrepresentation in Part d of FIG. 1). Such plastic deformation isundesirable since it is usually uncontrollable so that the growthprocess cannot be controlled any more. Different surface temperaturesmay result in compositional or structural inhomogeneities. Moreover, itis impossible to balance the thermal tensile strain occurring duringcooling-down by smartly selecting compressive prestress in order toobtain an even wafer consisting of a substrate and a layer.

One possibility of reducing said problem consists in using thicksubstrates, which is described, inter alia, in DE 102006008929 A1.However, said last-mentioned method usually definitely fails at growthtemperatures above approximately 1050° C. since the substrate has a verystrong tendency toward plastic deformation at such temperatures. On theother hand, said method fails with very thick applied layers since thesilicon substrate thickness would have to increase to values that wouldbe difficult to handle both in the manufacturing process and insubsequent processes.

The object of the invention is to find a solution to the problem ofplastic deformation in heteroepitaxy or of the deposition of strainedlayers at high temperatures, whether for very thick strained layers orin order to be able to use substrates having normal thicknessesaccording to the SEMI standard (or no excessively thick substrates,which would cause a large number of problems during subsequentprocessing.)

Inventive Solution

The layer system according to the invention composed of a silicon-basedcarrier having a single-crystal surface and of a heterostructure applieddirectly to the single-crystal surface of the carrier is characterizedin that the carrier comprises a silicon substrate doped with one or moredopants, wherein the doped portion extends across at least 30% of thethickness of the doped silicon substrate and a concentration of thedopants in the doped portion of the silicon substrate is predeterminedsuch that a corrected limiting concentration GK meets the condition offormula (1):

$\begin{matrix}{{GK} = {{\sum\limits_{m = i}^{n}\; \frac{N_{dot}^{i}}{1 + {\frac{5 \times 10^{22}\mspace{14mu} {cm}^{- 3}}{N_{dot}^{i}}^{{{- E_{A}^{i}}/0.095}\; {eV}}}}} \geq {1 \times 10^{15}\mspace{14mu} {cm}^{- 3}}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

wherein i represents the respective dopant in the silicon substrate,N_(dot) represents the dopant concentration in cm⁻³ and E_(A) representsan energy barrier of the dopant in eV, which energy barrier inhibitsdislocation glide.

The invention is based on the discovery that the plastic deformation ofthe silicon substrate can be inhibited by providing the silicon withdopants, wherein the necessary concentration depends on the strength ofthe bond between the dopant and the dislocation, which is taken intoconsideration by the above formula (1). The effects of several dopantsmay be added up in order to reach the limiting concentration GK. Thedopant may be an element or a compound. However, the doped portion ofthe silicon substrate preferably contains only one or two dopants.Furthermore, the dopant is preferably an element of the group comprisingoxygen, nitrogen, carbon, boron, arsenic, phosphorus and antimony or acompound of said elements among themselves or a compound of oxygen ornitrogen with a metal, preferably with aluminum or a transition metal.

The minimum thickness to be doped in the substrate is 30%, preferably50%. Ideally, however, the substrate is doped as thoroughly as possible.Depending on the respective dopant, modulation doping during substrateor single-crystal production might also be useful from a proceduralaspect. However, said modulation doping should meet the above-mentionedcondition for at least 30% of the future substrate thickness. Asdiscussed below, the bonding of two different substrate qualities isalso possible, from which a partial doping follows automatically.

According to a preferred embodiment, the doped silicon substrate isdoped with carbon with a concentration N_(dot)≧1×10¹⁹ cm⁻³. Carbon as anisovalent dopant in silicon is highly suitable for inhibiting plasticdeformation provided that the carbon exceeds the above-mentionedconcentration, wherein the particular processes have not been completelyclarified, yet. One phenomenon that can be frequently observed in carbonis the formation of high-carbon precipitates that harden the crystal.

In addition or alternatively, the doped silicon substrate is doped withnitrogen (E_(A)˜1.7-2.4 eV) with a concentration N_(dot)≧1×10¹⁵ cm⁻³ orwith oxygen (E_(A)˜0.57-0.74 eV) with a concentration N_(dot)≧1×10¹⁸cm⁻³ (see S. M. Hu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 31, 53 (1977) and A. Giannattasioet al., Physica B 340-342, 996 (2003)).

The energy barriers mentioned herein that inhibit dislocation glidecorrespond to the binding energies of the materials to dislocations thatare mentioned in the literature. The large spread clearly shows thatdetermination is not easy, which is partly due to the reaction withother materials present in the crystal but also due to the fact that thematerials are bound to the dislocation differently as well as due to theadditional influence of diffusion, which is one of the decisive factorswith respect to providing the dislocation with the dopant. Roughapproximate values for the suitability of a dopant can be estimated onthe basis of the known binding enthalpies or binding energies of siliconwith the respective materials, which are mostly significantly higherthan the ones mentioned above. For example, the value for the Si—O bondamounts to several eV. Since the situation in the crystal issignificantly more complex, it is advisable to perform determinationexperimentally.

Various methods are suitable therefor. Only some of these methods willbe mentioned in the following:

A nanoimpression technique is described in Christopher A. Schuh,Materials Today 9, 32 (2006), by means of which it is possible todetermine, depending on the temperature and knowing the dopantconcentration/s as against undoped material, the activation energy fromthe amount of force at which plastic deformation begins. In addition tothe determination of the dopant concentration (e.g., by means ofsecondary-ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS)), it is necessary to know theformed dislocation line density in order to be able to determine anactivation energy, which can be determined sufficiently accurately bymeans of transmission electron microscopy methods or by means of defectetching. Other suitable methods are temperature-dependent bendingexperiments, in which the substrate material is bent and the bendingforce is recorded. The beginning of plastic deformation is usuallycharacterized by a decreasing force during bending. Thus, the activationenergy can be determined provided that the dopant concentration/s is/areknown. Determination is also possible by means of methods that are basedon the temperature-dependent measurement of the force-bendingcharacteristics. It is also possible to use the substrates in the MOVPEprocess: If a tensile-strained or compressively strained layer isepitaxially grown on the substrate, it is possible to determine, bymeans of in-situ curvature measurement or combined surface temperaturemeasurement, from what pressure and at what temperature plasticdeformation occurs. Ideally, a tensile-strained layer is used since thetemperature is measured, when such a layer is used, at the point ofsupport (where temperature is at its maximum) so that the result isleast distorted. Thus, provided that the dopant concentration is knownand on the basis of the dislocation line density determined later on,the activation energy can be determined by varying the growthtemperature, which can be easily varied within a range of about 100° C.in a large number of methods, wherein it is possible to count (using aNomarski microscope) the dislocations during the growth of group-IIInitrides if the density of dislocations is moderate. It is essential tointerrupt growth at the beginning of deformation in order not to cause alarge increase in dislocation line density, which increase would distortthe measuring result. A high-purity FZ substrate is an ideally suitablereference. Depending on the respective dopant, a substrate grownaccording to the Czochralski process might also be useful. CZ materialusually contains more oxygen than FZ substrates, which has an effect ifthe substrate is doped with additional dopants (e.g., with nitrogen orboron), also because materials can react with each other.

Other methods that use ultrasound are also described in the literature(see, e. g., V. I. Ivanov et al. Phys. Stat. Sol. a 65, 335 (1981)).

Dopant concentrations of boron, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony andother elements that have very low activation energies inhibitingdislocation glide also have, from concentrations of approximately 10²⁰cm⁻³, an inventively usable effect that inhibits dislocation glide. Thequestion whether this is due to cluster or precipitate formation or nothas not been adequately answered, yet. However, an effect at high dopantconcentrations can be expected even with low energy barriers, which canbe explained by the fact that the silicon bonds present at thedislocation line are provided with a large number of dopants, whereinthe mostly high diffusivity of the materials at high temperatures playsa role, which diffusivity is mostly high due to the low energy barrierand mostly causes an accumulation of dislocations.

Preferably, the limiting concentration GK (minimum concentration)following from formula (1) is ≧5×10¹⁵, in particular 1×10¹⁶. Thementioned limits do cause a noticeable hardening of the crystal but aresufficient for a large number of processes in which heavily strainedlayers are produced. For example, when a 3 μm GaN layer is grown onsilicon by means of MOVPE at a temperature of approximately 1050° C.,thermal strain energy amounts to approximately 1.5-2 GPa. In order tocompensate for said energy, a corresponding compressive strain must bedeveloped during growth. Said compressive strain is above the limit forplastic deformation of high-purity silicon. In commercially available CZcrystals, on account of the residual impurities in the form of oxygen ornitrogen and the impurities in the form of an n-dopant or a p-dopant,such a thickness can be realized, in most cases, without the occurrenceof plastic deformation provided that a substrate having a thicknessof >500 μm is used. Even here, however, thicker layers quickly come upagainst limiting factors that make the inventive hardening of thecrystal inevitable since substrates must otherwise reach thicknesses onthe order of 2 mm, which makes little sense from a technological aspectsince the thinning process required for processing would be costly and alarge amount of material would have to be used.

With FZ substrates, the above-mentioned minimum concentrations alreadycause a considerable inhibition of plastic deformation, said inhibitionbeing sufficient for the layer structure, wherein it is not necessary toprevent any formation of dislocation (as desired in U.S. Pat. No.6,258,695 B1, for example) but only that amount of dislocation glidewhich results in measurable plastic deformation. Said measurable plasticdeformation is easily discernible in, e.g., Nomarski or differentialinterference contrast microscopy images of GaN on (111) silicon layers(crossed pattern, shown in FIG. 4 by way of example) and in in-situcurvature measurements (sudden buckling/sharp increase in curvaturevalues, which cannot be explained by the applied stress or the layerstructure).

In FIG. 4, the white subsidiary lines mark the deformation lines, whichrun only in two directions in this example. Here, the third direction isnot yet distinct enough so that it is not clearly visible in the image.Slight deformations, i.e., dislocation formation that does not result insuch a distinct behavior, are usually not relevant to the inventivelayer system since slight deviations from the ideal curvature, which areaccompanied by slight plastic deformation and are not detectable by,e.g., in-situ curvature measurement, do not have any significant effecton future component behavior.

The crystal may be doped with the dopants in various ways, e.g., bymeans of diffusion or implantation. On account of their usually highpurity and perfection, FZ substrates have a tendency toward plasticallydeforming much earlier than CZ substrates. The obtainable layerthickness that can be obtained on FZ substrates without plasticdeformation often amounts to only about half of that of CZ substrates,wherein nitrogen is particularly advantageous since it improves thecompensation properties of high-resistivity FZ substrates of the typepreferred in high-frequency applications.

Generally, adding nitrogen to silicon is particularly advantageous sincedislocations are more stable than in the case of the addition of oxygen.On account of its lower energy barrier, oxygen loses part of itsinhibitory effect on dislocation motion from a temperature of 800° C.already. Nitrogen loses part of its inhibitory effect from a temperatureof 1200° C. only, which makes much higher process temperatures possible.The behavior of carbon is similar to that of nitrogen. On account of thedifferent incorporation behavior of carbon, however, higher carbonconcentrations are necessary in order to achieve a corresponding effect.

According to a further preferred embodiment, the carrier comprises anundoped silicon substrate, to which the heterostructure is applieddirectly and which is connected to the doped silicon substrate directlyor via an intermediate layer, i.e., this approach provides theproduction of a carrier by bonding two silicon-containing substrates.One substrate is very heavily doped with at least one of the dopants andthe other substrate is, e.g., highly pure and highly resistive andprovides the single-crystal surface on which the heterostructure isgrown epitaxially. This embodiment is schematically shown in FIG. 2,where a high-quality substrate 200 that is made of pure silicon andmostly very thin is connected to a very heavily doped silicon-basedsubstrate 201 so that the carrier 202 results (Part b of FIG. 2). Thus,by bonding, properties of a high-quality substrate can be combined forthe epitaxy with a high-strength substrate, wherein the doped substrate,which is actually of inferior quality, may also include heavy crystaldefects, which often occur in the form of precipitates at very highdopant concentrations.

Such a bonding technique may be direct Si—Si bonding or may be performedby means of an intermediate adhesion promoter layer, e.g., on the basisof oxides, nitrides, oxinitrides, carbides of silicon or other metals,wherein this adhesive bond must also be stable at the processtemperatures of group-III-nitride growth. Such a bonding process bymeans of an adhesion promoter layer is shown in FIG. 3. Part a of FIG. 3shows the doped substrate 300, which is provided with an adhesionpromoter layer 302 (see Part b of FIG. 3), which may be performed bymeans of, e.g., a sputtering, vapor deposition, spraying or imprintingprocess 301. After that, the adhesion promoter layer 302 is providedwith a high-quality covering substrate 303 made of silicon (see Part cof FIG. 3). Said covering substrate 303 is then available, as a carrier304 (see Part d of FIG. 3) having a high-quality surface and beinghighly resistant to plastic deformation, for the process of applying theheterostructure. The combination of high-resistivity FZ substrates andheavily doped CZ substrates is particularly promising with respect tohigh-frequency applications, which require low parasitic capacitancesand thus high-resistivity buffers and substrates.

A high-quality surface region can also develop when the substrate istempered in an inert atmosphere or in a vacuum where the dopantsdiffuse, at a sufficient temperature, out of a surface region having athickness from several 100 nm to several micrometers. Depending on therespective dopant, a reactive atmosphere (aside from the inertatmosphere or a vacuum) can also promote outward diffusion by surfacereactions.

Layers or layer structures are usually component layer structures of thetype that is, e.g., mostly required for group-III-nitride light emittingdiodes or transistors where it turned out that the best approach toachieving an efficient light decoupling of light emitting diodes is thethin-film approach, i.e., a layer having a thickness of 4 to 5micrometers is grown on the silicon substrate and then transferred to anew highly reflective carrier, wherein the original substrate is removedlater on. Here, the thickness of the layer is necessary for the transferprocess itself and in order to be able to place a rough light decouplinglayer. If no thin-film process is performed, light decoupling isimproved if thick layers are used since brightness increases in thiscase on account of less lossy reflections of laterally emitted light.

With transistors, thick layers are important particularly forhigh-voltage components since the breakdown field strength essentiallydepends on the thickness of the layer aside from material quality andcontact clearance. With high-frequency transistors, the influence of thesilicon substrate, which is still fairly conductive in most cases andacts as an absorbing RC module, decreases with increasing layerthickness. Other components that require a low influence of thesubstrate on component properties or thick layers on account of theirstability (e.g., MEMS), are also ideally suitable for being grown on theinventive substrates since this can be achieved for thick layers in thismanner only or by using very thick substrates that are difficult toprocess. Therefore, the layer system is preferably a component layerstructure of a high-frequency transistor or of a light emitting diode.

The term “heterostructure” does not only refer to the group-III nitridesmentioned by way of example but generally refers to strained layers madeof other materials (such as silicon) that are deposited on siliconsubstrates at temperatures above the above-mentioned ones or areprocessed thermally. Processing at high temperatures may already resultin plastic deformation in strained systems if said systems were producedat lower temperatures, for example, which can be prevented by using theinventive layer systems.

1. A layer system composed of a silicon-based carrier having asingle-crystal surface and of a heterostructure applied directly to thesingle-crystal surface of the carrier, characterized in that the carriercomprises a silicon substrate doped with one or more dopants, whereinthe doped portion extends across at least 30% of the thickness of thedoped silicon substrate and a concentration of the dopants in the dopedportion of the silicon substrate is predetermined such that a correctedlimiting concentration GK meets the condition of formula (1):$\begin{matrix}{{GK} = {{\sum\limits_{m = i}^{n}\; \frac{N_{dot}^{i}}{1 + {\frac{5 \times 10^{22}\mspace{14mu} {cm}^{- 3}}{N_{dot}^{i}}^{{{- E_{A}^{i}}/0.095}\; {eV}}}}} \geq {1 \times 10^{15}\mspace{14mu} {cm}^{- 3}}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$ wherein i represents the respective dopant in the siliconsubstrate, N_(dot) represents the dopant concentration in cm⁻³ and E_(A)represents an energy barrier of the dopant in eV, which energy barrierinhibits dislocation glide.
 2. The layer system according to claim 1, inwhich the doped silicon substrate has one or two dopants.
 3. The layersystem according to claim 1, in which the doped silicon substrate isdoped with oxygen with a concentration N_(dot)≧1×10¹⁸ cm⁻³.
 4. The layersystem according to claim 1, in which the doped silicon substrate isdoped with nitrogen with a concentration N_(dot)≧1×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 5. Thelayer system according to claim 1, in which the doped silicon substrateis doped with carbon with a concentration N_(dot)≧1×10¹⁹ cm⁻³.
 6. Thelayer system according to claim 1, in which the carrier comprises anundoped silicon substrate, to which the heterostructure is applieddirectly and which is connected to the doped silicon substrate directlyor via an intermediate layer.
 7. The layer system according to claim 1,in which the corrected limiting concentration GK is ≧5×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 8. Thelayer system according to claim 1, in which the layer system is acomponent layer structure of a high-frequency transistor or of a lightemitting diode.
 9. The layer system according to claim 2, in which thedoped silicon substrate is doped with oxygen with a concentrationN_(dot)≧1×10¹⁸ cm⁻³.
 10. The layer system according to claim 2, in whichthe doped silicon substrate is doped with nitrogen with a concentrationN_(dot)≧1×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 11. The layer system according to claim 3, in whichthe doped silicon substrate is doped with nitrogen with a concentrationN_(dot)≧1×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 12. The layer system according to claim 2, in whichthe doped silicon substrate is doped with carbon with a concentrationN_(dot)≧1×10¹⁹ cm⁻³.
 13. The layer system according to claim 3, in whichthe doped silicon substrate is doped with carbon with a concentrationN_(dot)≧1×10¹⁹ cm⁻³.
 14. The layer system according to claim 4, in whichthe doped silicon substrate is doped with carbon with a concentrationN_(dot)≧1×10¹⁹ cm⁻³.
 15. The layer system according to claim 2, in whichthe carrier comprises an undoped silicon substrate, to which theheterostructure is applied directly and which is connected to the dopedsilicon substrate directly or via an intermediate layer.
 16. The layersystem according to claim 3, in which the carrier comprises an undopedsilicon substrate, to which the heterostructure is applied directly andwhich is connected to the doped silicon substrate directly or via anintermediate layer.
 17. The layer system according to claim 4, in whichthe carrier comprises an undoped silicon substrate, to which theheterostructure is applied directly and which is connected to the dopedsilicon substrate directly or via an intermediate layer.
 18. The layersystem according to claim 5, in which the carrier comprises an undopedsilicon substrate, to which the heterostructure is applied directly andwhich is connected to the doped silicon substrate directly or via anintermediate layer.
 19. The layer system according to claim 2, in whichthe corrected limiting concentration GK is ≧5×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 20. The layersystem according to claim 3, in which the corrected limitingconcentration GK is ≧5×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 21. The layer system according toclaim 4, in which the corrected limiting concentration GK is ≧5×10¹⁵cm⁻³.
 22. The layer system according to claim 5, in which the correctedlimiting concentration GK is ≧5×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 23. The layer systemaccording to claim 6, in which the corrected limiting concentration GKis ≧5×10¹⁵ cm⁻³.
 24. The layer system according to claim 2, in which thelayer system is a component layer structure of a high-frequencytransistor or of a light emitting diode.
 25. The layer system accordingto claim 3, in which the layer system is a component layer structure ofa high-frequency transistor or of a light emitting diode.
 26. The layersystem according to claim 4, in which the layer system is a componentlayer structure of a high-frequency transistor or of a light emittingdiode.
 27. The layer system according to claim 5, in which the layersystem is a component layer structure of a high-frequency transistor orof a light emitting diode.
 28. The layer system according to claim 6, inwhich the layer system is a component layer structure of ahigh-frequency transistor or of a light emitting diode.
 29. The layersystem according to claim 7, in which the layer system is a componentlayer structure of a high-frequency transistor or of a light emittingdiode.